An Elk Grove man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for trafficking in child pornography.
Bradley Alan Dayley, 40, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Garcia for producing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release. Daley also was ordered to serve at 10-year term of supervised release after he completes his time in custody.
The federal sentence is in addition to a more than 60-year state sentence.
Dayley pleaded guilty in September to producing child pornography and to possessing sexually explicit images of minors. According to court documents, the investigation began in 2009 when investigators at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children advised Elk Grove police that they had obtained images of a girl, 10 to 12 years old, who they believed was being sexually molested in or around Elk Grove. The images had been transmitted via the Internet and intercepted in Europe. In the background of one of the images was a garbage can featuring the seal of the city of Elk Grove.
Through an investigation, Elk Grove police identified the girl. On Sept. 23, 2009, detectives searched Dayley's residence and seized his computer equipment. Hundreds of sexually explicit still and video depictions of the girl were found, according to the news release.
The background in the images and videos revealed they had been taken at Dayley's residence. Officials said he admitted that the girl would visit him and that he had taken naked pictures of her.
Police found evidence of the video recordings on the computer hard drive and other electronic storage media seized from the residence. Officials said Dayley's computer hard drive also contained thousands of sexually explicit images and videos of other children.
In addition to the federal charges, Dayley was prosecuted by the Sacramento County district attorney for the acts of sexual abuse and was sentenced to 60 years and 8 months for those crimes. Officials said he likely will serve the federal sentence first. Dayley's state sentence, which is to run consecutively to the federal sentence, will begin upon completion of the federal sentence.
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